Greeting card



Sept. 12, 1933. w m JR 1,926,571

GREETING CARD Filed Jan. 13, 1932 FIG; I;

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Patented Sept. 1933 p f GR ETING cARD FredWeindel,-- Jr., Allentown, Pa, assignor "to L. F.*Gra'n11m'es & Sons, Inc.,Al1entown-, Pa., a I corporation ofMaryland v i I m ie iiem w 4 2 e ms-158 5319 "3 Clai'1nsf (01:41-10) j This invention relates to personal greeting I cards such as are given or'exchanged during the Christmas holidays and at {other festivals of the .year'; and it has.moreparticular,-referenceto greeting cardsof the folding type;

Greeting cardsiof the kindspecifically referred "to have been madeheretoforeof:various materials such as cardboard, paper, parchment, celluloid andungummd'foil; the cards being formed by plain folding of single sheets of these materials.

Broadly speaking, my invention is'directed to- Ward. the provision of a new and distinctive type of folding greeting card by. the use of embossed metal pasted to another material-such as cardboard to lend thickness and stiffness'and further, to hide the'embossing on the back of the metal sheet. i?

. Another object of my invention is to. effect the foregoing in such manner as to provide for easy 'hinge action at the folding point so that the cards may be readily opened and closed repeatedly without straining or rupturing the metal.

Still other objects and attendant advantages will be manifest from the detailed'description following in connection with the attached drawing, wherein Fig. I shows the outside face of a greeting .card made in accordance with my invention. Fig. II is a perspective view of the cardshowing the inside thereof. i

Fig. III is a broken out longitudinal sectional view of the card, taken as indicated by the arrows III-III in Fig.1, and drawn to a larger scale; and

Fig. IV is a fragmentary sectional view, corresponding to Fig. III, showing an alternative embodiment of my invention.

The form of my improved greeting card deline eated in Figs. IIII of these illustrations, comprises an outside sheet 5 of metal foil with a backing P of paper, which foil may be of brass,

aluminum, copper, silver, gold, etc., depending on thecolor desired; an inside sheet 6 which may be either of like or different metal foil 'or of fancy paper; and an interposed pair of stiffening or reinforcing sheets 7 and 8 preferably of relatively thick paper, cardboard or other non-metallic material, laid side by side, the several parts being glued or pasted'together, and the outer and inner sheets 5, 6 thus united over their normally flat areas.

' As shown in Figs. I and III, the outside metal foil sheet 5 has, in the present instance, an area 9 withan embossed ornamental design, and an area 10 of equal size which is plain exceptfor the embossed perimetric bead indicated at 11..

is, bridged by the said outside sheet, 'as well as by the inside sheet 6.

different ways. For example, the embossed areas may be colored in the depressions'and the raised Between the ornamented and plain areas 9 and k 10, the out side metal foil sheet 5 is .formedwith.

a. transverse embossed bead .12,1'which', at its a upper and lower ends, terminates'somewhat short of the. longitudinal portions, of the perimetric head 11! When made from metal foil, thinbide sheet 6.is likewise provided medially of its" length with a transverse bead as showniat lii in Fig. III.

It is to 'beparticularly noted from Fig. III that the stiffening or reinforcingsheets land. S are slightly narrower than the ornamented andplain areas 9. and-l6 of the outside metalfoil sheet 5 I with consequent provision, between their con-V tiguousside edges of a narrow interval 14 which By virtue of being centralized on the out side and inside sheets 5 and 6, the transverselbea'ds 12 and 13 .of necessity fall in direct line with the interva114 as illustrated in Fig. III. Accordingly, there is formed from the metal foila central hinge in which the'transverse beads 12 and i3 afford an excess of metal at the line ,offfold so that the vcard can be easily opened and closed repeatedly without. inducing stretch or fracture responding portion of the inside facing 6, when I I the card is folded as well as when it is flat. The narrower width of the inner hinge zone 1'3as compared with that of the beaded and curved outer. hinge zone 12 affordsmore ample room for the foldingof the inner facing 6 and" obviates conflict or reactionof the inner zone 13 with the outer zone 12in its flexure.

Upon one or both of the smooth faces at the in side of the card may be-printed or otherwise inscribed a greeting such'as indicated at 15 in Fig. II, with a blank space 16 therebeneathfor hand written inscriptions. If metal is used for the inside sheet 6 the figured embellishment may be formed by etching. 1

Obviously, cards made as described with metallic outside sheets may befinished in a variety of portions polished and thus emphasized by contrast, or theymay be burnished or satin finished. Such finishes are of course impossible with paper or cardboard, and myimproved cards are thus 10 80f: of the foil. The heading of the outside sheet 5 definitely distinguished from greeting cards made as heretofore'and they are moreover more attractive and durable. It is'of course Within the province of my inventionfto emboss the backs of the cards instead of leaving them plain asherein illustrated, or to ornament the cards through per- 1 foration with or without embossing and to viaout side sheet5a may be like the sheetf5 j-ofathe'T first described embodiment i.e. .offpaper backed:

' in this instance of fancy paper which is attached 7 to the sheet 5 without interpositionof "card-board i j stiffening, the said inside sheet affordinga smooth riously out line the cardsin shont to resort to all the artifices ordinarily practiced in embellishing. cards of cardboard or paper 'in accordance Withthe efiectsdesired. V In the "alternative embodiment of Fig metal foil; While the inside sheet Ior}lining or united (over the normally fiat areas) directly surface capable of receiving printed or hand written inscriptions, As in the first 7 described en Having thusfldescribed my 1. A folding greetingxlcard comprising super-' f b.od-iment,' a centrallyallocated bead 12a marks the line "of folding and affordsa sumcient excess I since-the number otfolds may be increased, without changingthe inherent characteristics hereill'bBfOlfi pointed :out; 1; H i

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posed' outside and insideffacing sheets; the former of flexible metal foil, united over theirnormally fiat areas;- the outside .metal sheetbeing beaded outward along the hinge so as to distribute the fieXure over a definite limited width sufiicient toassure against fracture by repeated flexure; and

a mmo at the inside '2. A folding greeting cal-Ya; comprising superposed'outside'and inside facing sheets, the former o f fiexible metal foil, and interposed stiffening fac ng when folded as sheets; with a hinge interval between their edges,

whereby saidfacing sheets are united over their teas, while left unattached along e elsiies i fiaidi d-s utwardaraldng the hinge so as to afiord acuryed hinge zone between the stiffening sheets "wider than the corresponding hinge zone of the inner facing and distribute the flexureover a definite limited width sufficient to assure against ;fracture Eofethe; outer hinge zone =.by repeated .;-flexure. i -l 1 A folding greeting and in imitate m "the preceding claim-wherein the'inside facing is of metal foil and the heading of the outside :facing sheet afiordsroom'to accommodate fiexure of the giei the outside metal sheet being 

